Why Xi Jinping Fears The Legacy Of China's Reformer Premier Zhu Rongji

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"What's on the mind of Xi Jinping right now is whether or not people are going to use different versions of history as a weapon against him." Zhu Rongji was the driving force behind China's market opening, entry into the World Trade Organisation, and relatively candid engagement with the West. After his death, Xi Jinping will be worried that citizens will idealise the 1990s as a "golden era of opening up" and criticise his state-heavy leadership, says Joseph Torigian, senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Joseph Torigian was speaking to Cindy You (in for Carole Walker) on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Wednesday, 10pm-1am. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us

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